I went to Barcelona to see some of the Americas cup live. It’s been a while and so I needed to revise my knowledge of the rules of the road.
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Simple clean wordpress themes
For various reasons I had a look at alternative themes. I am currently using one called minnow, or on this wiki which I believe is no longer supported. In particular I find it frustrating that the social media menu does not display the platform icons, except for twitter. Otherwise I find it quite cool. I…
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DEEBOT N20
I finally bit the bullet, here’s the manual, here’s the app location.
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Games in 2024
Class Wargames decided to play W40K which set me thinking. About boardgames and DnD again. Boardgames The W40K stuff took me towards the Battle of Actium. I found two games on Board Game Geek, and added them to my collection. One has probably gone, the other, Trireme seems available on the market, although the rules…
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The next Commission
I was looking at a piece of project work, considering the next Commission of EU . It seems that either part of VdL’s manifesto for the 24/29 programme or her letters to Commissioner designates contains the sentence as follows, “We will build on the Conference on the Future of Europe to instil a true and…
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Tony Benn and his legacy
The Commonwealth of Britain bill [ wikipedia | parliament ] was raised at the Chartist Conference yesterday and oddly I was notified tody of a conference on his legacy for next year. I mentioned him and his decline into parliamentary cretinism in my review of Simon Hannah’s book. The wikipedia page lists the reforms, which…
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Infringements of the Withdrawal Agreement
This is a notes page. I think the EU has instigated six infringement processes against the UK. Several, maybe the majority of these relate to the “Internal Market Bill”, and maybe the “Windsor Framework”. From memory I believe the Commission is also in dispute with HMG over the treatment of EU citizen’s resident in the…
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Sir Keir goes to Brussels
Starmer met Ursula Von Der Leyen in Brussels yesterday. It seems they couldn’t agree on what to say. Here are my notes and links …
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